" Release the fucking hostages and this all goes away. What don’t you understand about that "
I understand that you're lying.
Hamas needs to go. So does your fascist apartheid regime. You're going to embrace your Palestinian neighbors as citizens and equals, or you're going to attempt murder them all. What other choices are you offering?
"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country.
- David Ben-Gurion (The Jewish Paradox by Nahum Goldman, p. 99)